Essentials of Statistics (5th Edition)

Published by Pearson
ISBN 10: 0-32192-459-2
ISBN 13: 978-0-32192-459-9

Chapter 6 - Normal Probability Distributions - 6-4 Sampling Distributions and Estimators - Page 277: 20

Answer

No.

Work Step by Step

The mean absolute deviation is biased, while a sample of a good statistic must be unbiased. Therefore the answer is no.
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